Surgical management of metastatic spinal tumors

Cancer Control

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 122-128

  Laufer, Ilya ^a   Sciubba, Daniel M ^a   Madera, Marcella ^a   Bydon, Ali ^a   Witham, Timothy J ^a   Gokaslan, Ziya L ^a   Wolinsky, Jean Paul ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE METASTASIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE STABILIZATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84859448271     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327481201900206     Document Type: Article

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